Name
Thomas Hutchin
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/03/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
5359
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury, Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Thomas Hutchin was born in 1887 at Albury, Herts, the son of George and Mary Ann Hutchin. In 1891 The family were living at Workhouse Lane, Albury and his father was an agricultural labourer. By 1901 although still in Albury they were the New Cottages and in his father was working as a horsekeeper and Thomas was described as a house boy. In 1911 His widowed father and two siblings are still in Albury but Thomas was not living with them.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford with the 2nd Bedfordshires with the rank of Sergeant, so presumably had some previous military experience. He arrived in France in October 1914. He was killed at the battle of Neuve Chappelle on the same day as Phillip Cogan of Furneux Pelham. His Reg. No. given as 4/5359 on medal card and roll
Additional Information
His father George received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £11 2s 8d. N.B. On some records the surname Hutchin appears as Hutchins, with an 's'. Even though Thomas Hutchin was killed in action in France in 1915, the medal roll index card only shows him receiving the Victory and British War Medals, not the 1914 or 1915 Star.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
